[ Some had rather lose their friend then their jest.]
George Herbert
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"You know, Don, marriage is worth the trade. You lose all your freedom but you get this friend. This incredible friend."
Don Miller
One gentleman, whose name I never heard, was an earnest “friend of the people,” and descanted with much enthusiasm upon the glorious future then opening upon this new-born nation, and predicted the perpetuity of our institutions, from the purity and intelligence of the people, their freedom from interest or prejudice, their enlightened love of liberty, &c, &c. Alexander Hamilton was among the guests; and, his patience being somewhat exhausted, he replied with much emphasis, striking his hand upon the table, “Your people, sir,—your people is a great beast!” I have this anecdote from a friend, to whom it was related by one who was a guest at the table. After-dinner utterances have little value, unless, perhaps, their very levity makes them good indicators of the wind. We do not know the qualifying words which may have followed, or the tone and manner of that which was, perhaps, in part or in the whole, a jest.
Alexander Hamilton
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
Mary Renault
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